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Oscillation and the mean ergodic theorem for uniformly convex Banach spaces
Let B be a p-uniformly convex Banach space, with p >= 2. Let T be a linear
operator on B, and let A_n x denote the ergodic average (1 / n) sum_{i< n} T^n
x. We prove the following variational inequality in the case where T is power
bounded from above and below: for any increasing sequence (t_k)_{k in N} of
natural numbers we have sum_k || A_{t_{k+1}} x - A_{t_k} x ||^p <= C || x ||^p,
where the constant C depends only on p and the modulus of uniform convexity.
For T a nonexpansive operator, we obtain a weaker bound on the number of
epsilon-fluctuations in the sequence. We clarify the relationship between
bounds on the number of epsilon-fluctuations in a sequence and bounds on the
rate of metastability, and provide lower bounds on the rate of metastability
that show that our main result is sharp